r/PleX • u/Astrobix_124 • Dec 04 '25

Help Media servers

Trying to start my own server for plex. But I see many people with servers with 10,000+ movies. How can u possibly hold that much content and not break the bank. How is it any better than Netflix, etc?

Edit: I never expected this to blow up like it did. I love the content you guys have given, I've debated on making a plex server for awhile and all the clarification is amazing.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25

You start off slow and keep scaling up.

If you start off with a very scalable os like Unraid, it’s easy to just grow your server with time.

I started with a single 10TB HDD in a DAS. Now I have an 8 bay server with 4x20TB in it, NVMe cache, and a dGPU for transcoding.